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Wintergirls

<p>Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in fragile bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the thinnest. But then Cassie suffers the ultimate loss — her life — and Lia is left behind, haunted by her friend's memory and racked with guilt for not being able to help save her.</p><p>In her most powerfully moving novel since <i>Speak</i>, award-winning author Laurie Halse Anderson explores Lia's struggle, her painful path to recovery, and her desperate attempts to hold on to the most important thing of all: hope.</p><p><strong>Praise for <i>Wintergirls</i></strong></p><p>&quot;Necessary reading for anyone caught in a feedback loop of weight loss as well as any parent unfamiliar with the scripts teens recite so easily to escape from such deadly situations.&quot; — <i>Booklist</i>, starred review</p><p>&quot;Lia”s agonizing battle with food, her family issues, old memories, and self-mutilation episodes are often difficult to read but also make the book impossible to put down.&quot; — <i>Children's Literature</i></p><p>&quot;Anderson perfectly captures the isolation and motivations of the anorexic without ever suggesting that depression and eating disorders are simply things to 'get over.'&quot; — <i>Kirkus</i></p><p>&quot;As difficult as reading this novel can be, it is more difficult to put down.&quot; — <i>Publishers Weekly</i></p>

<p>Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in fragile bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the thinnest. But then Cassie suffers the ultimate loss — her life — and Lia is left behind, haunted by her friend's memory and racked with guilt for not being able to help save her.</p><p>In her most powerfully moving novel since <i>Speak</i>, award-winning author Laurie Halse Anderson explores Lia's struggle, her painful path to recovery, and her desperate attempts to hold on to the most important thing of all: hope.</p><p><strong>Praise for <i>Wintergirls</i></strong></p><p>&quot;Necessary reading for anyone caught in a feedback loop of weight loss as well as any parent unfamiliar with the scripts teens recite so easily to escape from such deadly situations.&quot; — <i>Booklist</i>, starred review</p><p>&quot;Lia”s agonizing battle with food, her family issues, old memories, and self-mutilation episodes are often difficult to read but also make the book impossible to put down.&quot; — <i>Children's Literature</i></p><p>&quot;Anderson perfectly captures the isolation and motivations of the anorexic without ever suggesting that depression and eating disorders are simply things to 'get over.'&quot; — <i>Kirkus</i></p><p>&quot;As difficult as reading this novel can be, it is more difficult to put down.&quot; — <i>Publishers Weekly</i></p>